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WEATHER STRIP.

No. 361,915. Patented Apr. 26, 1887.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

\VIDLIAM R. ALLAN, OF PITTSTON, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR TO HIM- ,SELF AND \VILLIAM L. VATSON, OF SAME PLACE.

WEATH ER-STRIP.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 361,915, dated April 26, 1887.

Application filed January 26, 1887. Serial No. 225.547. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, WILLIAM R. ALLAN, of Pittston, in the county of Luzerne and State of Pennsylvania, have invented new and Improved eather-Strips, of which the follow ing is a full, clear, and exact description.

Myinvention relates to animproved weatherstrip, and has for its object to provide a device automatic in its action, which will fall noiselessly over the saddle as the door is closed, and effectively prevent the ingress 'of cold air or dust to a room.

The invention consists in the construction and combination of the several parts, as will be hereinafter fully set forth, and pointed out in the claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming apart of this specification, in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 is a longitudinal vertical section through a door-frame, with the casing and door partly broken away, illustrating in positive lines the application of my device upon an open door, and in dotted lines the position of the strip when the door is closed. Fig. 1 is a detail view showing the arrangement ofthe clamp-strip on the opposite side of the door-frame. section through the applied weather-stri p, and Fig. 3 is a transverse section through a modified form thereof. a

In carrying my invention into effect I attach transversely to the lower portion of the door A a piece of molding, B, having a curve, 1), under the outer edge, and drive a series of staples, G, in the lower edge of said molding centrally the same at intervals its length. I now provide a weather-strip, D, of wood or other suitable or equivalent material constructed of a rectangular block, having its opposite corners, d d, rounded off, as shown in Fig. 2. Longitudinally of the top of the Weatherstrip D, from end to end thereof, I insert a continuous hinge, E, formed by bending a strip of metal upon itself and producing an eye, e, therein parallel with its curved side, the hinged connection with the molding B of the weatherstrip D being effected by entering the staples 0 through recesses cut in the curved edge of Fig. 2 is a transverse vertical through the eye e and the said staples G. The curved lower edge of the molding B, projecting over the weather-strip D, constitutes a shed therefor and also a protection for the hinge.

In the lower outer edge of the weather-strip D, I insert a strip of rubber, G, the length of the weather-strip, adapted to effectually prevent the ingress of any cold air or dust, and diagonally the corner of the Weatherstrip next the hinged side of the door, in the under edge,

I journal a roller, H, for a purpose hereinafter described, as shown in dotted lines in Fig. 1 and positive lines in Fig. 2.

At the end of the saddle h, abutting the casing to which the door is hung in the outer face, I produce a recess, h, and also a corresponding recess, h, in the sill, forming a conti uation of the recess h, as shown in dotted lines, Fig. 1. Thus, in operation, as the door is closed the roller H travels upon the saddle, carrying the Weatherstrip noiselessly in advance of the door, and as said door latches the said roller drops into the recesses h and h", whereupon the convexed surface 01 of the weather-strip fits in the concave surface of the saddle, forming a complete seal, the rubber strip G acting as an adjunct thereto.

I sometimes provide the outer surface of the weather-strip D with a metal facing, K, in which event the said facing and hinge are made integral, as shown in Fig. 3, the metallic facing and hinge being held in'position by entering the ends k of the metal strip in slots cut in the under edge and back of the said weather-strip D. 7

As a means of retaining the weather-strip in close connection with the saddle when the door is closed, a clamp-strip, M, of wood or metal, is secured to the door-frame M at the base, the inner edge of the said clamp being of a contour adapted to receive and snugly fit when the door is closed the face of the weather-strip D and the molding B on which the weather-strip is hung.

This clamp effectually prevents the weatherstrip from riding up out of contact with the edge of the saddle.

An ordinary weather-strip, N, may, if desired, be secured to the door-jamb, as shown the metallic hinge, andv passing a rod, F,

in Fig. 1, one end of which being made to rest upon the clamp M and the endc-arried upward against the top of the framecasing.

Having thus fully described my invention, I claim as new and desire tosecure by Letters Patent- 1. In aweather-strip for doors, the combination, with the molding B, having a curved uuder surface, I), and a series of staples eentrally said under surface, of the weather-strip D, provided with an upper continuous 1ongitudinal meta-l hinge, E, a lower longitudinal rubber strip, G, and a roller journaled transversely one end of said weather-strip, substantially as herein shown and described, and for" the purposes set forth.

2. In a Weatherstrip l'or doors, the combine-- WILLIAM ALLAN.

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